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G. M. CLARK.. J. B. WALLACE 8v J. H. KINDLEN.

LANTERN FRAME.

No. 363,364. Patented May 24, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

GEORGE M. CLARK, J. BENNETT VALLACE, AND JOHN H. KINDLEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO GEORGE M. CLARK & CO., OF

SAME PLACE.

LANTERN-FRAIVIE..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,364, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed March 1, 1886.

To all when?. it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE M. CLARK, J. BENNETT WALLACE, and JOHN H. KINDLEN, citizens of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lantern-Frames, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to certain improve ments in the wire guard-frames of lanterns designed to simplify, strengthemand improve the appearance of the frames.

It consists in the novel features hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings which forln a part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of alantern having our impro ved wire frame applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail, partly in section, ofthe bottom ring. Fig. 3 shows the end of one of the guard-wires as it is prepared for the joint with the bottom wire. Figs. land 5 are respectively plan and front elevations of the joint between the bail-guards and top ring.

In the drawings, A represents the bail,while B, C, and D are ring-wires, and E E F F are vertical or guard wires, constituting the wire frame of a lantern. The bail is hinged to the vertical wires E Ethrough the medium of eyes c on thelatter and eyes a on the bail. Instead of attaching these bail-carrying wires to the upper riugwire, B, in the usual manner; we make horizontal loops or eyes b in said ringwire and pass the wires E through the loops, thereby firmly attaching the wires together. These loops b also afford a convenient means of locking the free end m of the vertical wires, as such end may be put within the embrace of the loop, (see Fig. 5,) and also dip-soldered,if thought best. The loops b are preferably located below the plane of the ring B, and hence a vertical bend, o, may be given them, as shown in the edge view given in Fig. 1. It is also preferable to give the vertical wires E the bend shownA at p,in order that they may be uniform, as far as possible, with the wires E.

The base-ring D is constructed differently from those heretofore made from wire.

ends are spliced by inserting longitudinally therein keys or splice-pins d, as shown in Fig. 2. By inserting these pins centrally in the Serial No.193,564. (No model.)

l wire they are wholly concealed, and a dip solder bath renders the joint very firm without enlargement at the point where it is located.

Instead of securing the vertical wires to the bottom ring by tips and bending the ring to avoid the wearing away of the tips, we make the ring Without bends, and unite the vertical wires by inserting them in holes drilled 1n the ring. These holes are shown at s, and the ends of the vertical wires so inserted are milled, as shown at Fig.,3, to form the supportingshoulder v and to reduce the diameter of the holes, and so obviate undue weakening of the rino.

VIIe are aware that the vertical baihcarrying wires have been secured to the upper ringwire in various ways-as, forinstance, in the manner shown by Osborne in lPatent No. 167,269, of August 31, 1875; by Huntington in Patent No. 276,182, of April 24, 1883; b Wood in Patent No. 316,425,0f April 21, 1885, and by Westlake in Patent No. 94,535, of September 7, 1869. In none of these, however, 1s there any loop formed in the ring-wire, and hence, while we do not claim, broadly, the attaching of the bail-wires to the ring,

Vhat we do `claim isM 1. In a lanterirframe, the ring-wire B,hav ing outwardly-projecting loops b b formed by folds therein at `diametricallyopposite points, vertical guard-wires E E, secured to the base of the lantern and extending through said loops b b in said ring B, provided with bail loops or eyes c, projecting above said loops Z1, and a bail, A, substantially as specified.

2. In a lantern-frame, the ring-wire B,hav ing outwardly and downwardly projecting loops b b formed by folds therein at diametrically-opposite points, and vertical guard wires E E, secured to the base ofthe lantern and extending through said loops b I), and provided with bail loops or eyes e, the ends m of which are embraced by said loops b b, substantially as specified.

GEORGE. M. CLARK. J. BENNETT VALLACE. JOHN H. KINDLEN. Witnesses:

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